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Six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours, Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, has said.

“Over the past 24 hours we have lost six of our service personnel. A further nine have been wounded,” Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday, Nov. 17.